Year: 2003

FirewireDirect ships 320GB FireWire hard drives

Posted by | May 9, 2003 | |

FirewireDirect has announced the availability of 320GB FireWire and combo FireWire/USB 2.0 external hard drives. “Like all of FirewireDirect’s Ultra III hard drive products, the drive employs the fastest available mechanism supported in today’s external drives, and boasts the latest edition of the speedy Oxford 911 FireWire bridge board. It has two 1394a ports, and the combo edition includes a high speed USB 2.0 connector.” The FireWire model is priced at US$469, while the combo FireWire/USB 2.0 is priced at $479.

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Small Dog offers iPod trade-in program

Posted by | May 9, 2003 | |

Small Dog Electronics, a MacMinute sponsor, is currently offering a trade-in program for older iPods: Purchase a new third generation iPod by phone or online, get an RMA request for your old iPod and ship it to Small Dog for credit towards your new iPod purchase. Small Dog’s current trade-in prices for the week of 5/12 are: 5GB iPods – US$100, 10GB iPods – $150 and 20GB iPods – $225. Both first and second generation iPods in Mac and Windows format will be accepted.

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Adobe releases InDesign 2.0.2 memory update

Posted by | May 9, 2003 | |

Adobe has posted a new InDesign update, which resolves the following issues that occur when using the application in Mac OS X with more than 1.5GB of RAM: “Not enough memory” error is displayed when activating a clipping path from the Object menu; “Out of memory” error is displayed when selecting an EPS or TIFF file and trying to create a clipping path; or Applying text wrap to an object using a contour option fails to respond.

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